Overview
The Public Climate Finance Consultant will gather data on Fiji’s public climate finance, identify climate-relevant expenditures, and support the development of Fiji's second Climate Finance Snapshot.
Tasks Summary
- Gather data on Fiji’s public climate finance for the years 2020-2024 (and potentially 2025).
- Identify and designate climate-relevant expenditures based on a pre-agreed methodology.
- Validate results in a workshop and provide insights on the process.
- Present at a capacity building workshop if desired by the Fiji government.
- Act as a liaison between the public sector in Fiji and the UNEP project team.
- Engage public stakeholders productively on the project.
- Undertake interviews, gather documents and databases.
- Facilitate and coordinate the implementation of project activities in Fiji.
- Support the production of an Inception Report, Stakeholder Engagement Plan Report, Climate Finance Snapshot, Learnings and Recommendations Report, and Capacity Building workshop.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of 7 years of work experience in development project implementation in Fiji.
- Experience working with national public institutions or private sector (including financial sector).
- Demonstrated experience advising Fiji public organisations on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
- In-depth understanding of mitigation and adaptation priorities in Fiji.
- Expert understanding of what constitutes climate-change relevant public budgets and expenditure.
- Ability to support UNEP in producing a snapshot of climate-change relevant expenditures in public spending.
- Experience working with Fijian institutions on climate finance.
- Understanding of the Fiji public budget process.
Qualification Requirements
A Master’s Degree or equivalent, in environmental engineering, finance, economics, development studies, business, management, administration or another relevant field is required.
